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| Of the restoration of allowances to the churches; and of the Emperor's death.
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Chapter IV.—Of the restoration of allowances to the churches; and
of the Emperor’s death.
When the emperor had received this letter, his former knowledge of and
disposition to divine things was confirmed, and he issued a second
edict wherein he ordered the amount of corn which the great Constantine
had appropriated to the churches to be restored.674
For Julian, as was to be expected of one
who had gone to war with our Lord and Saviour, had stopped even this
maintenance, and since the famine which visited the empire in consequence
of Julian’s iniquity prevented the collection of the contribution
of Constantine’s enactment, Jovian ordered a third part to be
supplied for the present, and promised that on the cessation of the
famine he would give the whole.
After distinguishing the
beginning of his reign by edicts of this kind, Jovian set out from
Antioch for the Bosphorus; but at Dadastanæ, a village lying on
the confines of Bithynia and Galatia, he died.675
| 675 At
an obscure place called Dadastanæ, half way between Ancyra and
Nicæa, after a hearty supper he went to bed in a room newly built.
The plaster was still damp, and a brazier of charcoal was brought in to
warm the air. In the morning he was found dead in his bed. (Amm. xxv.
10. 12. 13.) This was in February or March, 364. | He
set out on his journey from this world with the grandest and fairest
support and stay, but all who had experienced the clemency of his sway
were left behind in pain. So, methinks, the Supreme Ruler, to convict
us of our iniquity, both shews us good things and again deprives us of
them; so by the former means He teaches us how easily He can give us
what He will; by the latter He convicts us of our unworthiness of it,
and points us to the better life.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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